Romney, Obama Tied in New Ohio Poll

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are tied in a new Ohio poll of likely voters, erasing the president’s lead from a month ago.

The poll for the Ohio Newspaper Organization, a consortium of the state’s eight largest newspapers, found each candidate with 49% of the vote in the hard-fought state. The poll, conducted by the University of Cincinnati’s Institute for Policy Research, has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

“Independents are now more evenly split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney than was the case in the first poll,” Institute co-director Eric Rademacher told the Akron Beacon Journal.

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